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Yoko Ono sings Fireworks
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I don't get how people don't get this, LMAO it's hilarious made even better by people actually clapping.
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same lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztvr09J7KK4
I don't think it would've been weirder, somehow
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why the fuck didn't they shoot her instead of John?
kidding, but i wouldn't mind if her vocal chords died instantly
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Ono cracks me up though, I like her. In a completely ironic way but it still counts.
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I love lady who slips on butter! I agree, a performance by the two of them would be truly something special.
For anyone who missed out on the glorious butterdance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnPNr9yquuc
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If that's art I should really start recording the epic dumps I take. Jackson Pollock has nothing on me.
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She's good for showing that certain forms of modern "art" are a sham, and she's also an instructive cautionary tale for pretentious idiots who hanker for the stench of their own bullshit.
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so does everybody here hate Yoko Ono? it was hard to find a positive Yoko Ono thread on here, every one had a negative title. i actually am a huge fan. i was dating a girl 15 years ago who was in art school and she got me into her stuff. it is very cool. when you think about it, it is very cool that The Beatles had a middle age female Japanese conceptual artist sing and do tape loops as a guest on one of their albums.
fluxus is very cool stuff. the solo films she made are very interesting, very conceptual, they stick with you for a long time. the books and poems are cool. Grapefruit is a rad as hell book. you can kind of pick it up and read as much as you want and put it down and think.
her film and sound collage work with John Lennon is very cool and it is sad that people hate her so much and don't consider this part of the Beatles canon. imo it is very important to their sound. while John was in the Beatles the two of them released a number of DIY and noise records. this is some of the most ambient, minimal noise ever to be pressed by a huge world famous artist. "Two Virgins" has a song "Remember Love" that is very sweet and sung by Yoko Ono and is a really lovely bit of music that would have fit nicely on the "White Album". sadly that album was trashed and discarded as a dumb joke largely due to them being naked on the cover (seriously, that is hilarious and awesome).
one time i went to a showing of John and Yoko's films. they were showing one film called Apotheosis (1970). the film started inside of a hot air balloon with John and Yoko sitting on a bench in Central Park. the hot air balloon takes off and goes into the clouds. from here the film just captures the clouds until it runs out (18 minutes). just sitting in that space, being surrounded by clouds, hearing those distant sounds, it was an incredible experience.
finally, her rock n roll albums are FUCKING AWESOME proto punk proto New Wave. some of them even have members of the Beatles playing the music. "Plastic Ono Band" and "Why" in particular is music 40 years ahead of its time. this sounds at times exactly like The Boredoms. in fact, it is early Krautrock. Yoko, John and Ringo are joined by long-time German friend Klaus Voorman (designer of the "Revolver" album cover) playing bass, making this the Can version of the Beatles. "Fly" is another incredible album. "Feeling the Space" has one of the coolest album covers ever, which i will put below. her music is super feminist and super raw here but with gangsta early 70s funk beats. there is a song about the witches of salem that is unbelieveably beautiful and sad. there is a song "Woman Power" which is powerful drone rock w amazing lyrics:
Two thousand years of male society
Laying fear and tyranny
Seeking grades and money
Clinging to values vain and phony
Woman power (Woman power)
Woman power (Woman power)
Do you know that one day you lost your way, man'
Do you know that some day you have to pay, man'
Have you anything to say, man
Except, "Make no mistake about it, I'm the president, you hear'
I wanna make one thing clear, I'm the president, you hear'"
Woman power (Woman power)
Woman power (Woman power)
fluxus is very cool stuff. the solo films she made are very interesting, very conceptual, they stick with you for a long time. the books and poems are cool. Grapefruit is a rad as hell book. you can kind of pick it up and read as much as you want and put it down and think.
her film and sound collage work with John Lennon is very cool and it is sad that people hate her so much and don't consider this part of the Beatles canon. imo it is very important to their sound. while John was in the Beatles the two of them released a number of DIY and noise records. this is some of the most ambient, minimal noise ever to be pressed by a huge world famous artist. "Two Virgins" has a song "Remember Love" that is very sweet and sung by Yoko Ono and is a really lovely bit of music that would have fit nicely on the "White Album". sadly that album was trashed and discarded as a dumb joke largely due to them being naked on the cover (seriously, that is hilarious and awesome).
one time i went to a showing of John and Yoko's films. they were showing one film called Apotheosis (1970). the film started inside of a hot air balloon with John and Yoko sitting on a bench in Central Park. the hot air balloon takes off and goes into the clouds. from here the film just captures the clouds until it runs out (18 minutes). just sitting in that space, being surrounded by clouds, hearing those distant sounds, it was an incredible experience.
finally, her rock n roll albums are FUCKING AWESOME proto punk proto New Wave. some of them even have members of the Beatles playing the music. "Plastic Ono Band" and "Why" in particular is music 40 years ahead of its time. this sounds at times exactly like The Boredoms. in fact, it is early Krautrock. Yoko, John and Ringo are joined by long-time German friend Klaus Voorman (designer of the "Revolver" album cover) playing bass, making this the Can version of the Beatles. "Fly" is another incredible album. "Feeling the Space" has one of the coolest album covers ever, which i will put below. her music is super feminist and super raw here but with gangsta early 70s funk beats. there is a song about the witches of salem that is unbelieveably beautiful and sad. there is a song "Woman Power" which is powerful drone rock w amazing lyrics:
Two thousand years of male society
Laying fear and tyranny
Seeking grades and money
Clinging to values vain and phony
Woman power (Woman power)
Woman power (Woman power)
Do you know that one day you lost your way, man'
Do you know that some day you have to pay, man'
Have you anything to say, man
Except, "Make no mistake about it, I'm the president, you hear'
I wanna make one thing clear, I'm the president, you hear'"
Woman power (Woman power)
Woman power (Woman power)
Adam_Vania
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oh yeah first Yoko LP i really loved was "Season of Glass". really cool album that, new wave era. "Walking on Thin Ice" is probably her coolest, danciest, accessible song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS5p345HBIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS5p345HBIM
Staccat0
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I fucking love a lot of Yoko's work. I hate other work. Not everything is for me but I'm glad people like her exist. She had made some great stuff.so does everybody here hate Yoko Ono? it was hard to find a positive Yoko Ono thread on here, every one had a negative title. i actually am a huge fan. i was dating a girl 15 years ago who was in art school and she got me into her stuff. it is very cool. when you think about it, it is very cool that The Beatles had a middle age female Japanese conceptual artist sing and do tape loops as a guest on one of their albums.
fluxus is very cool stuff. the solo films she made are very interesting, very conceptual, they stick with you for a long time. the books and poems are cool. Grapefruit is a rad as hell book. you can kind of pick it up and read as much as you want and put it down and think.
her film and sound collage work with John Lennon is very cool and it is sad that people hate her so much and don't consider this part of the Beatles canon. imo it is very important to their sound. while John was in the Beatles the two of them released a number of DIY and noise records. this is some of the most ambient, minimal noise ever to be pressed by a huge world famous artist.
one time i went to a showing of John and Yoko's films. they were showing one film called Apotheosis (1970). the film started inside of a hot air balloon with John and Yoko sitting on a bench in Central Park. the hot air balloon takes off and goes into the clouds. from here the film just captures the clouds until it runs out (18 minutes). just sitting in that space, being surrounded by clouds, hearing those distant sounds, it was an incredible experience.
finally, her rock n roll albums are FUCKING AWESOME proto punk proto New Wave. some of them even have members of the Beatles playing the music. "Plastic Ono Band" and "Why" in particular is music 40 years ahead of its time. this sounds at times exactly like The Boredoms. in fact, it is early Krautrock. Yoko, John and Ringo are joined by long-time German friend Klaus Voorman (designer of the "Revolver" album cover) playing bass, making this the Can version of the Beatles. "Fly" is another incredible album. "Feeling the Space" has one of the coolest album covers ever, which i will put below. her music is super feminist and super raw here but with gangsta early 70s funk beats. there is a song about the witches of salem that is unbelieveably beautiful and sad. there is a song "Woman Power" which is powerful drone rock w amazing lyrics:
Two thousand years of male society
Laying fear and tyranny
Seeking grades and money
Clinging to values vain and phony
Woman power (Woman power)
Woman power (Woman power)
Do you know that one day you lost your way, man'
Do you know that some day you have to pay, man'
Have you anything to say, man
Except, "Make no mistake about it, I'm the president, you hear'
I wanna make one thing clear, I'm the president, you hear'"
Woman power (Woman power)
Woman power (Woman power)
People like to go "deep lol" but they are usually coming into shit overthinking it or expecting more than is necessary to appreciate her work on it's own terms.
It's kinda embarrassing honestly.
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